We motivate ourselves to a healthy lifestyle

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

This is the 101st article on the same topic. Perhaps a little more aggressive, but I want to show you other benefits of a healthy lifestyle that you have not thought about. What if this 101st article finally becomes that very motivation for you?

Can a person who preaches a healthy lifestyle be considered a fanatic? Yes, and, on the one hand, this is bad, because many fanatics of a healthy lifestyle are trying to impose their culture on the “unenlightened”. On the other hand, they do it absolutely sincerely, because having tasted a healthy life, it is almost impossible to come back.

I was extremely pleased to see that several people, inspired by my example, also embarked on the path of proper nutrition and minimizing bad habits. The only trouble is that there were dozens of people who got to know me, and only a few of them took advice.

I used to think it was their fault. Over time, I began to be inclined to believe that the reason was in me, because I could not interest them. Looking back, I understand that with my present (albeit relatively little) experience, I can interest much more. I tried to choose the reasons why I cannot imagine myself without a healthy lifestyle, and I hope that soon you will not be able to imagine either.

You will cease to satisfy only the lowest needs

You've probably heard of Maslow's pyramid. This is a scheme that divides the needs of a person into levels: from the lowest to the highest. This is how it looks.

If your only joy is to eat, then you are in the ass. In the ass of Maslow's pyramid.

Since the satisfaction of physiological needs is the lowest level of the pyramid. And I am by no means saying that enjoying sex, food and sleep is bad, no. The bottom line is that the higher the level of the pyramid, the more varied and the more fun you get. And a healthy lifestyle is the top of the pyramid.

You develop, get better, set goals and achieve them. Ultimately, you will enjoy what you enjoy. A vicious but very pleasant circle.

Think long term

Now you want to eat a sandwich, smoke a cigarette, or hammer into a workout. These are short-term pleasures. What comes out in the long run? A sandwich turns into extra pounds, a cigarette turns into the inability to run more than a kilometer without shortness of breath, and a missed workout results in a year of inactivity.

Conversely, starting to train right now, not tomorrow, not from the first day, not from the new year, you create yourself a wonderful long-term perspective. You gradually turn into a person who can do almost anything and who learns something new about his body every day.

Early old age

It's not even that by encouraging bad habits, you will die sooner. The fact is that you will grow old much faster. And you know without me that this is fraught not only with a bad appearance, but also with a limitation in opportunities. Do you want to lie on the couch and do nothing? And what if after a while you already have there will be no opportunity get off the couch?

You diversify your life

You have no idea how much emotion the sport adds and how versatile it can be. You can ride bikes with friends out of town, go jogging in a snowy forest, or take a grueling march. And I haven't lost my mind.

Moreover, you will have new friends and acquaintances. Sport brings people together.

You will become more beautiful

And there is a hidden advantage in this. Seeing your changes for the better, you will become more confident in yourself, and others may even seem like you. After all, let's be clear: healthy and athletic people are treated better. And if you are dealing with people, then this is another plus in the piggy bank.

That's all. You will rise from the bottom of Maslow's pyramid, get a brighter future, protect yourself from early old age and become more beautiful. The price is also high: you have to work on yourself almost every day. It will be difficult to start, it will become easier and easier over time - until you ask yourself a question about how you lived without all this before. And then you will remember this article and you will understand that I and many others were right.